WHEW hi there folks. As usual we’re stupidly late. I’m up in Seattle for the week to go to both Emerald City Comic Con and Sakura con and between that, still trying to get settled in the new and STRUGGLING with the color on this page, I’ve been going a little crazy. (I had like three false starts on this one and I’m still not happy with my work. Sigh.) So thanks for continuing to be patient. Hopefully we’ll soon be at a place where we’re not playing constant catch up.

That aside, we’re trying something new on this page! We’re experimenting with colorizing the spirits’ linework to give them a more ethereal look and remove them a bit from the ‘real’ world’s black linework. What do you guys think?

This weekend is another double duty for us! I’m going to be at Sakura Con and JD is going cross country to participate at Anime Boston. We’ll have something new Shounen Fight related — we went ahead and made prints of the boys’ transformation pages! We’ve also got a couple of new Supernatural badges and prints so if you like some demon hunters, be sure to come by. I’ll be in the small press section of Sakura Con at SP-12 and JD will be in Anime Boston’s artist alley at booth 93. Come say hi!

It’s doubtful we’ll be able to get THIS week’s page up in time what with the two cons but we’ll try to squeeze an extra page in when we get home.

Sitting in the airport in Seattle, waiting for my flight back to Oakland after spending a week here in Seattle! I just finished up at Sakura Con after going to Emerald City Comic Con last weekend and staying for a total of ten days. Although I had a ton of work I had to do, I managed to get out a little during the week and get a feel for the city and fell completely in love with Seattle. The food is great, the public market is to die for, people are friendly, the Puget Sound is BEAUTIFUL, the air is crisp and the city is so clean! Of course, the weather was lovely most of the time I was here and while there’s a part of me that thinks I would love to live here, after a few weeks of VERY COLD RAIN I probably wouldn’t be so enthusiastic. Nonetheless, I had a wonderful time, Seattle!

Sakura Con was SO AWESOME! I was fortunate enough to be able to spend most of the weekend with some of my favorite people/comic artists. I was delighted to get to the con and discover that we were set up next to Minor Acts of Heroism, and proceeded to be a squirmy little fan spaz at them for the entire con. I was also delighted to once again be able to see and chat with our friends over at Decalzilla. After hours, I spent almost all of my time with the lovely ladies of Teahouse fame as well as the extremely talented Chloe, artist for Two Keys/Honeydew Syndrome. Next year at Sakura Con, we’ve arranged to all be seated together to form a BOY LOVE TRIFECTA OF DOOM. I met so many new people and picked up several new comics, including meeting Cari who does Toilet Genie and reading Fox Sister (READ IT RIGHT NOW OMG.) Meanwhile, JD had a full workload at Anime Boston and got to see such talented artists as our good friends Jadiekins, Nakira and Kori, creator of Prince of Cats. Thanks so much everyone for being such great friends and making our conventions so much fun!

And thank all of YOU so much for coming to see us at the cons! We both have never had so many people come see us at the booth and we sold nearly every copy of the books we had at both cons! We feel really guilty that we didn’t have any freebies that we could give to you guys! What we did do was make some print versions of the transformation wallpapers that I recently put together — and yes, we’ll make those available for those of you who’d like to order them through the web site later this week. 🙂 We’ve got a little time at home, finally and thankfully so we’ll be busting our butts to get new pages done for you guys! Thank you as always for being so patient while our lives have been in a state of flux for the last six months. The support and appreciation and kind words we’ve received about the comic are just overwhelming.

I always thought Luna was a little too much… You know, she was too precious, even by the magical girl standards. :3 This little furball, on the other hand, has potential. She’s cute and purrr-ey… And, as the comments clearly show, already has a fanbase 😉
Now what are you going to call her? *Thinks of something season-related…* Indian Summer? (Shorten as Indy ^^) Nay, that was a terrible try. 😀

PS : Hope you got a terrific con ! Damn, that makes me want to be American !
PPS : Can I be a mascot too? ^^

Oh my god! I had no idea you guys were going to Sakura Con! I’ve been having a shit day, and this just made my life (even if it’s two days late).

On another note, did you guys do something new with the line art? The spirits look different. In a good way. I love them in this page, I think this is my favorite page you guys have done so far! Awesome job!

Yay, finally we find out what was in the bag! Awww, so cute 🙂 And of course, Raji would think he was the Prince, lol. Mike’s reply to that was great.
Love the dialogue on this page! I do like the new line work for the spirits, too.

Hey guys, I know this is off-topic, but have ya’ll pre-ordered your copy of Artifice yet? There’s still time to get one from Alex’s Kickstarter. I just wanted to remind ya’ll since it’s been a little hectic lately for the two of you.

I can tell the difference with the color, but I like it, especially in terms of the spirits. Both their brightness along with the thinner inking on them gives them a great otherworldly sense. Usually artists try to do that by spirits a faded look and I love how the spirits just pop on the scree.

Okay, I love this page! Kitty cat! And you say there’s prints of the boys’ transformation pages? Are you only selling them at Cons? Or will they appear in the online store too? Because if they’ll be sold online too, I will entirely pardon any past or future delays in posting, provided the comic gets finished. *fangirling*

I wish I could to go to Sakura Con this year, but I haven’t got the money and besides that, I just had my wisdom teeth pulled, so the left side of my face looks like someone hit me hard enough to turn it black and blue before surgically implanting a golf ball under the skin of my cheek, which means I do not want to appear in public right now. I don’t think there’s a cosplay in the world that could work with my swollen face.

<3<3!! Thank you so much for supporting us by picking up the comic at AB, and for reading and generally being awesome. Seriously, you and the others who stopped by and said nice things really helped make AB an amazing con for me! ;_; *happy tears*!!

I think Raji just belatedly realized that either a) he’s allergic to cats or b) if he gets stuck keeping the kitten in his room, it might shed on or shred all his painstakingly prepared Autumn Ingenue costumes.